From: David Palm <dvdplm@...>
Date: 2010-02-02T22:26:57+09:00
Subject: Re: [ENCODING] UTF8 hell

> I fetch rows from an UTF8 database and try to work with the string. To
> do so, I would like it to be UTF8 encoded.

There are several pieces to this. Even if the DB encoding and collation is utf8, doublecheck that the client connection is utf8 as well ("encoding: utf8" in database.yml for a Rails app I think).

> self.encode!('UTF-8')

str.force_encoding('UTF-8') is what you want to use I think.

:)